We must care for those who once cared for us.

We cannot end this pandemic anywhere if we do not end it everywhere.

Our nation has an empathy gap.

We have suffered trauma. We may do so again. But we will endure.

The Vatican is calling for a new paradigm of care for older people after what it calls the "massacre" wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, which has disproportionately killed people living in nursing homes.

If we listened more than we lectured, maybe we would find different reasons to arrive at the same behaviors that help us heal.